Cynthia / Estienne

Dating myself here, but PP is a broken record "Canada's broken blah blah" with no useful plan, as you have said many many times.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer Turning "cold" tumors "hot"

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer?
A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here
erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

I'm (GenX) getting flashbacks to the CASE tools of the 80s / 90s that were going to "save" systems engineering by generating your program straight from the box-and-arrow diagrams.

A whole lot of resources at the time went into that hype bubble, but not nearly as much as into AI today.

I wrote this article! 🙂

This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

Any other GenXers in IT remember back to the 80s / 90s and all the CASE tools that were going to save systems engineering? Generate your program straight from the box-and-arrow diagrams?

Yeah, the AI hype is giving me flashbacks to that 💩

I'm old enough to remember all the hoopla around CASE tools in the 1980s and how you would supposedly generate a whole service or program from the box-and-arrow diagrams.

This has the exact same level of hype.

“The Library,” a mural in Coit Tower showing a man pulling Karl Marx off the shelf

Mainstream news in 2025: Oh nO a scArY mArxIsT is rUnnInG NeW yOrK

random public artist in 1935:

Woo, brakes + oil + winter tire swap came in under C$1k + HST, we still have a car! Car is a 25yo OG Prius, 1st model-year in NA and under 200k km.

Bouncing around on shitty roads to get to people's cottages apparently knocked the rear brakes out of alignment, + general age and wear.

Even if we could afford a warm vacation this winter, it would absolutely NOT involve flying anywhere near the shitshow that is US airspace right now. 💪🇨🇦

🧪

YouTube video by things your mom should’ve told you NVIDIA, Google, and the Crypto Twins: The Secret List that Bought White House Favors

Another great video from a great creator, this time on the who's who funding the White House ballroom and the benefits these donors are expecting. Includes a list of donors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL94...

Security Community Slams MIT-linked Report Claiming AI Power... Experts push back on new claims about AI-driven ransomware, warning that hype and sponsored research are distorting how the threat is understood.

Last week, MIT released a sketchy, vendor-funded report claiming more than 80% of ransomware was powered by AI. I had a deadline and didn’t get to read it when it first came out.

Now I’ll never get to read it. People pointed out so many methodological problems that they pulled it offline. 1/x

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You "Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

Why are we all seeing more AI ads on social media?

"You can simply publish tons of different versions of low-effort bullshit, and largely people will only see the ones that perform well," @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes.

Let's get into it:

I'm not American, but yeah women over 40 are seen as "low status has-beens" by this type of cretin, and he acts surprised that we're angry about being erased.

Yeah, unfortunately Amazon bought them out in 2008 🙁

This Canadian will use Amazon for searches and lists, but then look up the original company. I just bought a Xmas book for my husband from a used bookstore in the UK after looking it up on Abe Books (owned by Amazon). Same for the slippers he wants. Cheaper too for the most part.

An Air Canada flight right now

Gilbert’s Potoroo and the fun-guys: Co-existing mycophagous mammals as indicators of potentially available fungal food resources - Biodiversity and Conservation Understanding resource use and availability is critical for the success of wildlife translocations, especially for species with complex diets. Mycophagous (fungus-feeding) diets are particularly chall...

The amazing @rebeccajquah.bsky.social who I have the privilege of supervising, just got her first PhD paper published. She used eDNA to examine the diet of the world’s rarest marsupial and explores how this approach can help find new suitable habitat. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Once Again, Chat Control Flails After Strong Public Pressure The European Union Council pushed for a dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages, and once again people around the world called out the risks loudly enough that the current Danish presidency has

Thankfully, public pressure has once again pushed the EU Council to withdraw its dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 34: Hunger as a War Tactic & Project Healthy Minds This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends, Happy Halloween! I’m keeping this intro short as I...

SNAP articles aren't talking to those of us who've experienced starvation from poverty and what it does. "What isn’t mentioned is that starvation is a known war tactic. People cannot fight back if they are starving. Hunger makes people obedient and compliant."

www.theinfophile.com/archive/eeda...

Not surprisingly, large amounts of coffee tops the list, followed by spicy food and then white rice. I could be persuaded to cut back on coffee to ~1 cup a day, but I absolutely will NOT give up my chicken dhansak, kimchi, sriracha, or chana masala.

I'm not sure that my personal use case for AI is worth the environmental and social cost, but just now I was able to download my food logs (Carb Manager) and IBS logs (Poopify) and have Proton's Lumo correlate them for triggers.

There's also the fact that JD's wife and kids have an "inconvenient" skin colour for someone hoping to lead a white nationalist movement after its current leader shuffles off. He's been awfully friendly with Erikkka Kirk recently.

Photo of a hand holding a shaving razor with a Snickers candy bar very poorly Photoshopped onto it.

Hey folks: Be careful out there tonight. I bought a razor blade and it had a Snickers in it.

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

JP Morgan warned US of $1bn in Epstein transactions possibly related to human trafficking Bank says it alerted US of ‘suspicious’ transactions just weeks after paedophile was found dead in New York jail cell JP Morgan warned the US government about more than $1bn in transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein that were possibly related to reports of human trafficking, new documents confirm. The largest bank in the US filed a suspicious activity report (SAR) in 2019, just weeks after Epstein was found dead in a New York jail cell, about transactions linked to the paedophile financier and prominent business figures. It also flagged wire transfers made by Epstein to Russian banks. Continue reading...

JP Morgan warned US of $1bn in Epstein transactions possibly related to human trafficking

Priorities...

As Wallace and Gromit said, "CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!" 🧀

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social